Lost Words - Couverture souple

Gardini, Nicola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811224767 ISBN 13 : 9780811224765

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2016

Synopsis

Inside an apartment building on the outskirts of Milan, the working-class residents gossip, quarrel, and conspire against each other. Viewed through the eyes of Chino, an impressionable thirteen-year-old boy whose mother is the doorwoman of the building, the world contained within these walls is tiny, hypocritical, and mean-spirited: a constant struggle. Chino finds escape in reading.One day, a new resident, Amelia Lynd, moves in and quickly becomes an unlikely companion and a formative influence on Chino. Ms. Lynd--an elderly, erudite British woman--comes to nurture his taste in literature, introduces him to the life of the mind, and offers a counterpoint to the only version of reality that he's known. On one level, Lost Words is an engrossing coming-of-age tale set in the seventies, when Italy was going through tumultuous social changes, and on another, it is a powerful meditation on language, literature, and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Nicola Gardini lives in Oxford and Milan. Lost Words was awarded the Viareggio Prize and the Zerilli-Marimo/City of Rome Prize. A Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, Gardini teaches Italian literature.

Michael F. Moore, chair of the PEN/Heim Translation Award, has recently translated Live Bait by Fabio Genovesi and Agostino by Alberto Moravia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811224767
• ISBN 13: 9780811224765
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible